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October 17, 2024
Returned from Hattiesburg
    Sherrie Lynn Gore
Just Returned from Hattiesburg, Mississippi where I attended my late cousin's funeral. The trip was long and arduous simply for the milage and that was all. I pulled into Hattiesburg around 5 pm and called my cousin to get some directions. She directed me to the home of her late parents, my beloved Bill and Glenda Gore and the Air B&B their home had become.

Little did I know that I was both being rescued from a strange place and offered a luxurious place to sleep as well. I've never been rescued in such a exquisite manner before. They had a place for the family and friends to meet which didn't entail everyone getting a hotel. I slept like a log and arose the next moring ready to hit the ground running.

The affair was at once somber and celebratory of her life and legacy and not entirely without a bit of friction and social drama seondary to behaviors witnessed ... but that's all part of being human.

My other two cousins were in and out of grief and socializing at the wake. The tears flowed and would ebb then return later. I felt a sense of emotional support and that their tears were not to be endured but to be understood. Episodic as it was the grief was palpable and I learned things about my late cousin I never knew.

Hattiesburg on the map    
I learned a lot of things about my kin the Gore clan. I reminisced about moments with my late loved ones gone on before as though it were yesterday. I viewed the first back yard in which I ever truly played. This was one of the most meaningful and personally satisfying trips I've ever made. When you are related to others it is important to know something about them. Understanding what they feel is important and their attitudes towards life and living.

I told them that I felt like I was family and they said I always was. This certainly how they always treated me. I feel like I know them all more and am left wishing I had spent more time with my two cousins who are now passed. Distance is a poor excuse for absence. I will now endeavor to be there for them whenever it is possible. I miss you Bill, Glenda, Greg and Sherrie. I am sorry we were separated by such distance.

Sherries Funeral

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October 15, 2024
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity 2024
    Human Fetus 16 weeks

I have typically been a 'qualified' pro life person. While I don't see this "My body my choice" endless progression of abortions by slutty types thinking they need to lay around and breed then abort the products of conception — although I do feel that a woman who is having health issue regarding a pregnancy or if an unborn child has birth defects of sufficient severity should be allowed to abort that pregnancy without asking permission from some elected numbskull.

Today is Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity and it happens annually on the third Tuesday of October under the auspices of one Bryan Kemper since 2004.

It is said to be a day for us to remain silent in remembrance of the children who have lost their voices as a result of abortion.

Again, sometimes I feel abortion is justified. This being said, I don't think some feminist asshole should be able to abort a pregnancy as a convenience item to promote slutting around. If you get in my face say "my body my choice" I will likely strike your whore ass down closed fist and simply accept the consequences.

Yeah. Abortion should happen in certain cases.

However, I don't feel it is some sex addict or judge or legislator's purview as to when and where is appropriate. After all with the advent of democrat libtard judges all over the place I would go so far that in some instances abortion should be retroactive.

Think what you will. I'll do the same.
 

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October 14, 2024
National Native American Day 2024
Happy Raine    
I have interacted with very few native Americans in my lifetime. Among those few times I recall being told that native American was preferred over "indians" and that females of the species are not referred to as "squaws" because that was a name the white men of the movie industry imparted and it was considered derrogatory.

I used to watch a program on ETV in Charleston called 'Happy Raine' where a local woman portrayed an native American. It was a regional favorite and hers was a child oriented show with a lot of laughter and various antics and informational spots. It was just something which was always there for me ... and I indulged the program frequently.

National Native American Day. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October and is said to honor the traditions and accomplishments of various native American tribes. I understand it is not observed in all 50 states and in some states it is observed on a different day.

People have this false notion that the native Americans should not be allowed to conduct enterprises not permitted to everyone in a given area, such as casino gambling. My personal belief is this is the least we can do for a group of people so badly walked upon by invaders to their lands.

Somehow the white person thinks that they own any land they encounter in their travels. Instead of staking this interlopers out and teaching them the lesson they deserved, the native Americans relented and went to those reservations the white man ordered them to and even that wasn't good enough all the time.

I agree with the native Americans that their people have suffered genocide at the hands of the United States government who went around 'acquiring' their lands for it's use.

1990 is said to be a year of reconciliation between native Americans and caucasian people resulting in Columbus Day becoming Native American Day but in the end will this ever be enough. You think I have an attitude.

There are native Americans around with far worse feelings of being down trodden than I.

Happy Native American Day.

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October 13, 2024
Navy Birthday 2024
I enlisted in the Navy in my 24th year. It was pretty much an attempt to right my failing course of action and redirect my life toward something practical and forward looking. I did 14 weeks in boot camp due to my inability to run. The cause and effect relationship here was morbid obesity and smoking. I had lost 168 pounds to make the weight requirement for enlistment. I had stopped smoking when I disembarked the airplane at Orlando ...

Then it was on to boot camp.

Suffice it to say my efforts at rehabilitating myself were way too little, too late on both the weight and smoking accounts. They took us out to the pool and 4 am and threw us in. I passed the swimming test fine and dandy. Then we came to the running test and I simply didn't have what it took. I remember my peripheral vision going dark and feeling as though I had left the body. This caused me to stop running whereby I failed and entered a process called "recycle" whereby the seal slavemasters took me out every day and ran me. Eventually I passed only to fail the next test. I didn't seem able to catch up on the physical requirements but I did lose a person from my frame during the interim.

After boot camp I went to Basic Electricity and Electronics doing courses at Orlando and Great Lakes Illinois. Then there was Fire Control Technician Class A School phases I and II. After that I went to the AN/SPG55-B track transmitter training and finally made it to the fleet.

USS MacDonough DDG-39

I served aboard the USS MacDonough along with a great many persons with whom I went to boot camp. This was after they told us during boot camp we would likely never see each other again after departing there. They were all there on my ship as well when they finished their training.

Aboard the 'Mighty Mac' I attempted to be "squared away". I didn't want any reports getting back to my daddy, Master Chief Williamson regarding any misbehavior so I pretty much towed the line without incident and was known as a "4-0" sailor by those in charge. It was there I met Chief Wayne J Mead, one of the finest human beings I'd ever met. He always wished me a happy birthday whenever the Navy's birthday came up aboard ship.

October 13 is the Navy's birthday. Time to recognize the active duty heroes serving the country in the capacity of sailors.

I would not have liked the Navy much had it not been for Wayne Mead and those others who tolerated and indulged my rude ass so well during my time aboard ship. It has left me sorry that I didn't endeavor to be the best sailor I could be while on active duty. I have since attempt penance and I support Navy causes vigorously for this reason.

Happy birthday United States Navy.

Happy Birthday Navy

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October 12, 2024
National Motorcycle Ride Day 2024
Motorcycles are a widely utilized mode of transportation here in the United States. Sometimes these personal conveyances are better left at home in favor of something more appropriate for where you are and what time of day in which you are traveling.

I once had a good friend named Emmett who went on an excursion which left him in traffic at 10:00 pm in a bad area for traveling on a motorcycle.

The state of South Carolina has seen fit to terminate the driver's education program, so now we have idiots driving around without a shred of training and no insight or intellect on top of every thing else. All the highway patrol can do is check to see if you're wearing a seat belt.

Duh! Everybody seems to think they have the right of way anymore.

Emmett Tolbert on his Harley Davidson



Emmett impacted a white van which pulled out in front of him at the intersection of Broad River at Beatty Road and was killed. His wife was riding behind him and he diminished her impact somewhat but still she suffered serious injury necessitating a protracted stay in intensive care and pretty much lost her husband and that lifestyle she enjoyed very much.

The sad tale is left dangling by the fact that there was no funeral nor formal obit for Emmett so this marks the end of his story from my perspective.

Today is National Motorcycle Ride Day.

It is observed the second Saturday in October.

I don't have much to say regarding this holiday except be careful. There are two children who lost their father and a wife who lost her husband because he chose to ride in a bad area at a bad time of day on a motorcycle. The people on the road really don't care if you have the green light or not. Emmett had the green light and look at what he received.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07/30/16 5:20 PM
CONTACT: GARY WATTS, CORONER
(803)576-1799

RICHLAND COUNTY, SC

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts is releasing the name of the individual who was killed last night after being involved in a two-vehicle collision at 10:25 p.m. The incident occurred on Broad River Road at Beatty Road, Columbia, SC.

Emmett Eugene Tolbert, date of birth 10/13/1972, of Leatherwood Drive, Lugoff, SC, died at the scene when the motorcycle he was driving collided with another vehicle. An autopsy conducted this morning indicated the cause of death was due to blunt force trauma to the head. Mr Tolbert was not wearing a helmet at the time of the collision.
 
The SC Highway Patrol is investigating the incident
 
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Rest in peace.

See Also:

National Bacon Day 2023
Cruel Fate

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October 11, 2024
The Incomparable Angela Lansbury
    Dame Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE was born October 16, 1925 in London, England to Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury.

She passed October 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at age 96.

She was a British and American actress and singer whose career spanned some 80 years and incorporated various roles across film, stage, and television. She was a citizen of United Kingdom, United States since 1951, and Ireland since 1970.

She became internationally famous as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote. It ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest running and most popular detective drama series in television history. A longstanding favorite of my Mom I might add.

• She earned six Tony Awards
  (including a Lifetime Achievement Award),
• six Golden Globe Awards,
• a Laurence Olivier Award, and
• the Academy Honorary Award, as well as
• nominations for three Academy Awards,
• eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a
• Grammy Award

She was quite a talent in her day and her characters live on in syndication and remain a part of my mother's life on
streaming television.

Rest in peace.

Murder, She Wrote

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October 10, 2024
Yes, my satire is harsh
    hate email
Harsh stupid times like the candidacy of idiot Kamala Harris and the moron Tim Walz call for just such harsh handling of ideas and consequences.

I for one will not tolerate these imbeciles in the manner their stupid supporters propose.

They are both without merit and liars regarding their records and deeds.

Kamala Harris proposes she can handle issues she hasn't been able to take care of in her present administration.

Tim Walz is to busy lying about everything and everyone to be concerned with reality at all.

So yeah, send me your hate email. I'm ready show you just who is made of what.

The left is the party of child abuse, illegal immigration, insecure borders, undeserved entitlements, and stupid entertainers like Robert crybaby asshole De Niro who think they know things they don't.

I don't need them nor will they silence me.

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October 10, 2024
Inclusion Day 2024
firing squad wall


Today is Inclusion Day.

It is an October 10 observance designed to ensure that individuals of various abilities, backgrounds, ages, races, religions, genders, and other characteristics are accepted, welcomed, and treated fairly.

World Inclusion Day will honor the togetherness of diverse individuals, all of whom feel appreciated and included.

The sense of belonging will be celebrated on World Inclusion Day.

People may feel appreciated, valued, and honored for who they are when they are included.

If you are liberal, WEF, transsexual, communist, socialist, or simply a dumbass social justice warrior who doesn't know their anus from a hole in the ground ...

Inclusion allows us to build a society that will ultimately be more compassionate, welcoming, respectful, and united once we get rid of the riff raff.

Small acts of kindness and inclusion may significantly influence the world and the people we interact with.

Globalization is the end of nations. Other countries wish to take control and rule you like the insect they feel you are. So as you come into the country, please step up to the wall and be included.
 

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October 9, 2024
World Post Day 2024
Gibraltar extra-large mailboxes at street    
I try to maintain a good relationship with the post office, carriers, and desk clerks working for the United States Postal Service. I don't always succeed — but at least I make the effort consistently and conscientiously in an effort that my mail doesn't get gone all of a sudden ...

Today is World Post Day.

It happens each October 9 corresponding to the establishment of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874.

Sometimes when I'm thinking they are all a bunch of slackers I try to remember just how difficult and fickle public service can be.

    roll of forever postage stamps
How quickly we forget.

I keep three or four rolls of 'forever' stamps laying around. I like to buy them before the price goes up again. It seems they like to raise the price every few months anymore.

So bear in mind that the mail goes through by and large unless you get your mail from the Northeast Post Office at 8505 Two Notch Rd in Columbia SC 29223-9998. This is postively the biggest bunch of shirkers and slackers in the US Postal system.

Happy World Post Day to you.

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October 8, 2024
International Lesbian Day 2024
Lesbo cuffs    

Yeah. People are bound to think me intolerant over my personal opinions regarding gayness in the populace. However, those known to me realize that I am much more tolerant that I might sound otherwise when I go off on yet another rant ...

It another thrilling International Lesbian Day, a time to celebrate those carpet munching female on female perverts who can't have children themselves so they involve others outside their family to become involved.

This abomination is held on October 8 in the name of lesbians and all the sick evil with which they pollute the world.

The likes of the evil libtard Rosie O'Donnell, who adopted normal children and converted them to transgender sick birds over which she fawns and says just how proud she is of the little pervert she created then raised. Nonbinary that unnatural bitch.

Sorry. I still think lesbians are an abomination and I have my own solutions for these miscreants who feel they belong in mainstream society when they don't. I do not feel the need to apologize for the fact that I believe coupling should be heterosexual, with no male and male or female and female pairs.

It's simply not natural. You cannot procreate in a same sex pair yet the idiot government wants you to be able to adopt normal children so you can turn them to your abnormal lifestyle. We are not penguins.

It all stems from my religious upbringing. Despite what others may say or exhibit I believe in a higher power and it is not Satan as the homosexuals portray.

If you are gay and known to me I will not persecute you because it is not my nature. Confrontational episodes are really not my cup of tea. Aside from this, die lesbians die.

See Also:

Same Sex Pairing in Nature
 

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October 7, 2024
World Cotton Day 2024
    snowflake

My childhood was populated with cotton bolls. The fluffy white fiber product of the cotton plant was all around me during my high school years and on those forays to Grandma Ida's house before then. We would go to the Hugh Whetstone Gin up the road and they would suck the plants into the machine and they would be returned plant less and seedless and ready to cart off to the textiles industry.

Today is World Cotton Day.

It happens each October 7 since October 7, 2019 under the auspices of he Cotton Four countries which are Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali. . It celebrates the cotton plant which is a natural fiber used in clothing. It constitutes 27% of the textile needs of the planet. I like the breathable absorbent products manufactured from cotton and will buy it preferentially over any synthetic any time.

The United Nations has done nothing good for the world except try to rule it incompetently and we should wrap them up in cotton and burn them at the stake.

Cotton means clothing and jobs and therefore it is a good thing. The United Nations means Agenda 2030 oppression and incompetence in all things and should be disbanded.

Cotton is a global commodity. I personally feel that it with all other commodities should be the responsibility of the juridiction needing it. I simply LOVE cotton clothing, from drawers and t-shirts through the long sleeve regalia I used to don prior to retiring and finding myself totally useless.
 

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October 6, 2024
Zero Inbox Day 2024
emailish    
I get a lot of email.

Most of it is due to various subscriptions I have others are personal, questions, and aspects of business. I never let the inbox get out of hand. I go through the receipts and place them in their appropriate folder as a matter of daily work. I can't see keeping a couple thousand of these so quite a few make it to the 'bit bucket' never again to see the light of day.

Today is Zero Inbox Day.

It is held each October 6 since 2020 under the auspices of an applications developer who calls himself Superhuman to provide a vehicle to promote inbox management for the common man. Seeing how my sorting is ongoing and a daily occurrence I never let there become an email problem as it were.

I have no qualms with deleting anything that comes to the inbox and I have never considered any email to be an "emergency" even though I get a few from time to time claiming this designation.

I think there is a lot to be said for productivity. I just think a day like this is a miscarriage of everything mindful and significant to my existence.

This day is for the huddled skill-less masses of those with too little to do and less with which to work.

There is always time to do the right thing. If this is right for you I think you should go for it.

I figure I get about as much email as anyone. If you, like me, consider Zero Inbox Day some lamer gimmick and therefore a waste of time you may simply ignore all the hubub.

Happy Zero Inbox Day to all you Superhuman types out there !

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October 5, 2024
National Be Nice Day 2024
    be nice
So I once avoided situations where I was expected to be pleasing and agreeable in nature. Since my fashionista days of the late 1980s I have tried to maintain as pleasant or attractive appearance as was possible with the resources available to me.

Now I neither dress for nor coddle these crybaby sensitive types.

v Also early on exhibiting courtesy and politeness was somehow anathema to my existence. I think it has to do with my public school education.

Nowadays I am somewhat more amenable to societal norms until I meet someone with an ax to grind and there it all goes out the window.

Today is National Be Nice Day. It is an October 5th happening to remind us that we should be nice everyday.

Positivity not withstanding I am simply trying to avoid beating the crap out of somebody for some avoidable transgression of comportment.

Luckily I tend to my own demeanor these days and have little to be confrontational regarding — though I admit the animosity can certainly raise it's ugly head at the drop of a hat.

So be nice if that's you. I don't ask anyone to be anything other than what they are.

Happy National Be Nice Day and try not to be too confrontational or combative.

Just keep that trusty mattock handle or favorite club handy and I'll try to do the same.

mattock handle




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October 4, 2024
National Body Language Day 2024
Spy vs Spy    

Body language refers to those gestures, postures, and facial expressions by which a person may indicate various physical, mental, or emotional states being called "communicating nonverbally" with others.

This nonverbal communication by means of facial expressions, eye behavior, gestures, posture, and the like; are often thought to be involuntary.

Then there are the deliberate, usually culturally influenced, nonverbal communication using the body through facial expressions, gesticulations, dancing, insufferable mimes, and so forth.

Now then, I'm not a big proponent of body language as an art form and even less so as a science. I dare say I think students of body language are pseudointellectuals attempting to tout some nonexistent "skill" as worth mentioning. Perhaps too many of us are simply of a too 'follow he herd" mentality and just want to act similarly to everyone else they know.

I know many others will disagree.

Perhaps this is all due to 'poker face' and not revealing yourself to your enemies such as I have practiced since boot camp where I was thrown in the brig for mutiny and conspiracy. Such ridiculous antics by idiots in charge lead to the keeping of ones heart far from their sleeve.

Today is National Body Language Day. It is held since 2010 under the auspices of one Blanca Cobb, so-called "body language expert" and usually goes down on the first Friday of October making it October 4th this year.

The day is meant to make people realize some power in body language as an important mode of communication. I for one am ususally crystal clear in my intent, and yes, I suppose that you might say that body language could be a valid indicator of this.

For example, with me you will readily know if I am incredulous — or bored — or if you better run for your life. I remain and have been a very effective communicator. If you wish to attribute part of this to your perception of "body language" then more power to you !

Happy National Body Language Day regardless of your take on it all.
 

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